{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Endgame with Fintan O’Toole","title":"America's Second Gilded Age: Jean Strouse","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2282,"description":"In the third episode of Endgame with Fintan O'Toole, the historian Jean Strouse discusses the parallels between our current American moment and the Gilded Age. She and O’Toole talk about the roots of our modern American institutions in the Gilded Age, when the country's business leaders imported cultural as well as financial capital, and relied greatly on migration. Looking at the origins of figures like J. Pierpont Morgan and Levi Strauss, Strouse examines how a kind of enlightened self-interest motivated the robber barons and industrial capitalists who set the course for much of the American twentieth century. \n\nJean Strouse is the author, most recently, of Family Romance: John Singer Sargent and the Wertheimers—about the painter's relationship to the family of Asher Wertheimer, a London art dealer who commissioned portraits of himself, his wife, and all ten of their children—as well as biographies of Alice James and J. Pierpont Morgan. She has written for the Review on subjects that range from Henry James to Sargent portraits to a late-life romance between Morgan and Lady Victoria Sackville to the Transatlantic cable. Strouse was the director of The New York Public Library's Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers from 2003 to 2017, and began her career at TNYRB, where she worked as editorial assistant to Robert Silvers right after graduating from Radcliffe College.\nEndgame with Fintan O'Toole is a New York Review podcast. Our theme music is \"Political World\" by Bob Dylan, courtesy of Universal Music Publishing Group and Sony Music Entertainment. Our show art is designed by Jason Logan. And our producer is Erica Getto.\nNew episodes drop every Tuesday across podcast platforms and at YouTube.com/@nybooks. For more, head to nybooks.com.","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/yC5gmtTgH9Pbex6DjFFpBILwUw-nyZNQn_G2Tj1KK1g/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8xMzE4/NmYxZjdjYjRjNGMx/NjlmZGRlMDNhYzdk/NDMzYy5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}